Having a hard time keeping up with the fast-moving field of origin of eukaryotes/Asgards archaea? Our new perspective article can help, we review the status of research over the last decade and where it's going.
The archaeal roots of eukaryotic life
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Whiptail lizards would like a word
Swapped out a leaking flapper with a new one and in the process snapped the hot water intake line to the bathroom sink. Happy Friday the 13th to those who celebrate
TBF these are the same people who make excuses with mass shootings in school
I miss UMO, got my BS there many years ago and spent lots of my undergrad studying HMGCoA reductase in Hitchner Hall
Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree of the non-redundant Klebsiella pneumoniae dataset based on core SNPs, with a color gradient showing PC1 variation.
Could the shape of phylogenetic trees contain hidden info? @siqi647.bsky.social @campy-bara.bsky.social @danielfalush.bsky.social show the "backboned" shape of the phylo tree of #Klebsiella may reveal historical diversifying selection on an unknown trait @plosbiology.org 🧪https://plos.io/4s6R3Wo
A new #Yeast has been discovered by Carlos Rosa, Susana Johann & team: Candidozyma cisalpinoae. The new species is resistant to azoles, shows other virulence-associated traits and was isolated from Ipomoea flowers in the Tocantins state, Brazil 🌸 🇧🇷
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He’s talking about Hitler’s Germany right?
🍺 Fixing brewing #Yeast! 🧬 Experimental evolution corrects mother-daughter separation defects in ale strain over 200 generations:
✅ fewer large clusters
✅ reduced foam accumulation during fermentation
🧪 #YeastResearch #SGD #MoreGoodPours @micropub7n.bsky.social
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Extremely foggy road
The commute to work gave me a ‘Future of America’ vibe
In the latest #Yeast review article, A. Kiely, F. O'Halloran, P. Young, N. F. Lowndes, @murielgalway.bsky.social and K. Finn discuss the latest advances in understanding the versatile role of Rad9 in the DNA Damage Response in Saccharomyces cerevisiae 🧬
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Interaction of C. glabrata wild type and C. albicans yeast-locked efg1ΔΔ/cph1ΔΔ mutant cells with macrophages.
Should I stay or should I go? Research in #mBio suggests the fungus Candida glabrata may actively prolong the part of its life spent inside macrophages, which could contribute to immune evasion, antifungal resistance and potential recurrence of infection. asm.social/2Q2
In new research, Yu-Ying Phoebe Hsieh, Ian O’Keefe, Ajai Dandekar, Harmit Malik &co reveal how magnesium sequestration by C. albicans enables P. aeruginosa to evolve much higher levels of resistance to colistin (a last-resort #antibiotic).
🧪#MicroSky
Just want to note that Trump considers US soldiers who die in battle to be losers. His words not mine.
Crap
www.online-tribute.com/DavidBotstein
David Botstein passed away. I worked with him at Stanford for a few years in designing and teaching a course on "The Heart". My heart is heavy right now. He was a wonderful mentor.
Only met him a couple of times (at CSHL and a yeast meeting). Seemed like a decent person, he was the postdoc advisor for my grad school advisor. Always joked that Botstein was my scientific uncle.
In the fall semester, my most scheduled. I block off time for writing and grading so people don’t steal my time
Today in my writing support course, we’re talking about narrative flow and the reverse outline! One of my favorite activities to improve my drafts.
Today I get to talk about barley and the evolutionary history of domestication leading to the varieties we have today.
Plus malting: leveraging nature for our own purposes.
Best part of teaching the Biology of Brewing Course , besides the students, is talking about history and the importance of the brewing industry in society…biologically at least, we aren’t hitting on societal issues in any depth.
BREAKING NEWS: Unethical, CDC Infant Hep B Vaccination Study Cancelled!
The study was cancelled after Stand Up for Science held a closed door briefing with Congress last week, with an investigator on the ground in Guinea Bissau.
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In case you missed it: our review titled "Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities" is out! 🚨
Let me hit you with some highlights on why spatial structure matters. (and why you should care!)
Sharing is appreciated 🙏 🧵👇
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Appreciate this, thanks for the info!
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Well that streak died
Went back to blue book in class essays this year 😭.
Much preferred giving students time and resources to develop well constructed arguments and not superficial responses under time constraints.
Are these independent isolates? Look extremely close in size, is this usual for rust fungi? The yeast we are studying vary remarkably in ITS region size.
Connections
Puzzle #988
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Just saw Macbeth at the @guthrietheater.bsky.social Nice to see an evil government have to deal with consequences.
A stepwise route to polyploidy in yeast https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.20.706944v1
